How to Organize your Paper

 

 

Having trouble organizing your thoughts?
Getting comments back on papers that say "disorganized" or "choppy"?

These websites may help!

A Writing Tutor's top picks for help with organization of ideas to adequately structure a paper
Having trouble putting your ideas into the proper format in a paper?
Linn Benton Community College Learning Center
http://cf.linnbenton.edu/depts/lrc
Click on Writing Help in the left hand column, scroll down to the bottom, and click on the last link- "Structure of an Essay"
Direct link- http://cf.linnbenton.edu/depts/lrc/web.cfm?pgID=360
Rating- *****
Gives tips for organization of ideas and proper format of essays.

   
Having trouble relating the different concepts you are including in your paper?
Purdue University
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Under Handouts and materials at the top, scroll down to General Writing Concerns and hit Go.
Click on "Planning (Invention): Thought Starters, (Asking the Right Question)"
Direct link- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/index.html
Rating- *****
Asks thought provoking questions of how different variables of your topic relate.
   
Having trouble getting started/getting organized?

Purdue University again… follow the directions above, except click on
"Planning (Invention): When you start to write"
Direct link- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_plan2.html
Rating- ****
Helps you sort out your ideas before you start to write, rather than as you write your paper, or after.
 

For general writing concerns, Purdue University's OWL (Online Writing Lab) is excellent, though a little difficult to navigate.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

 

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